DELHI HIGH COURT DISMISSED PIL SEEKING MHA TO SHARE DECEASED INDIVIDUALS' DATA WITH LIC FOR JEEVAN JYOTI SCHEME CLAIMS: MIGHT LEAD TO A SCAM

The Delhi High Court l in the case Aakash Goel vs. Union of India&0rs observed and has dismissed the Public Interets Litigation, PIL filed seeking to mandate the Ministry of Home Affairs to provide a database of deceased individuals in the country to the Life Insurance Corporation, LIC so as to enable the family members or nominees of deceased policyholders to claim benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana.

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The Public Interest Litigation, PIL seek direction to the LIC to provide policy documents to all the policy hold-ers of Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, PMJJBY.

Further, the petition filed seek directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs, MHA to provide information of all the deceased individuals to the LIC, so that the nominee/family members of the deceased policy holders can directly get the insurance claim of Rs. 2 lakhs under the PMJJBY.